No aspect of AEI's contribution to public policy is more important than its book publishing. The AEI Press produces volumes by leading policymakers and scholars on economics, foreign affairs, politics, and social issues. The following is a sample of its accomplishments and best offerings from the past year.

The Press published the fourth edition of one of its most successful books, Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing, by Adjunct Scholar Edwin J. Delattre. The new edition includes a discussion of how the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001, have affected the future of police work. Mr. Delattre considers how police and law enforcement should protect the public from future terrorist atrocities, how police departments taking on new duties in homeland defense can avoid wearing down their personnel, how they can effectively promote public safety without causing inordinate public fear, and how police leaders should deal with extremes of public opinion.

AEI's Evaluative Studies publications examine the performance of federal government programs and policies to promote greater understanding and continuing review of major government activities. Two new books in the series address health care programs. In The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform, economists David L. Kaserman and A. H. Barnett analyze the organ procurement system and offer a market-based reform proposal. They present evidence that ending the ban on payment for cadaveric organs can eliminate the shortage of organs for transplant, and they explain why the ethical objections to organ markets should be dismissed. Medicare Hospital Subsidies: Money in Search of a Purpose, by Sean Nicholson of the University of Pennsylvania, reviews the rationales, legislative history, and financial incentives of federal subsidies for teaching hospitals and hospitals with a "disproportionate" share of poor patients. He suggests alternative designs for the programs that would curb their costs and ensure that they actually achieve the goals for which they were created.

The AEI Press added to its body of critical work examining Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Government-Sponsored Enterprises: Mercantilist Companies in the Modern World, by attorney Thomas H. Stanton, explores the origins of the GSEs in mercantilist concerns in the sixteenth century; compares investor-owned and cooperative GSEs; and examines design issues, activities, size, legal attributes, charter powers, the fulfillment of public purposes, and the quality of oversight.